Festoon: meaning, example and synonyms
Festoonv. To decorate lavishly with chains, garlands, or ribbons hung in loops.
Example
Volunteers festooned the old market hall with paper lanterns and garlands of dried chili peppers, transforming the drafty building for the harvest festival.
- Part of speech
- verb
- Synonyms
- decorate, garland, drape, adorn
- Antonyms
- strip, denude, leave bare
- Memory tip
- A festoon is a looped garland; festoon = hang them for a FESTival.
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Check yourself: Festoon in context
For the wedding, the family chose to ______ the courtyard with strings of lights and looping garlands of jasmine strung between the olive trees.
Answer: festoon. Decorating with looping garlands and strings of lights is to festoon. excavate (dig up), circumvent (get around) and abut (border on) don't fit this context.
Victorian parlors were often crowded with ornaments, and hostesses liked to ______ their mantels with swags of velvet and dried flowers.
Answer: festoon. Hanging swags of velvet and flowers as decoration is to festoon. retrieve (get back), nudge (push gently) and abut (border on) don't fit this context.